Community of Practice for Advance Care Planning & Advance Healthcare Directives in Mental Health by

Conference Programme:

AHDsMentalHealthCommunityofPractice — 2024-12-05 16:25:41 UTC

This conference on 'Advance Healthcare Directives in Mental Health - from Law to Practice' will be held at the UCD University Club on 23rd January 2025. The conference will cover expert clinical, legal, ethical, and lived experience perspectives on advance care planning in mental health. It will include sessions on 'Law and Ethics', 'Irish Experience', and 'Implementation and Practice' and will culminate in a panel discussion on how best to implement AHDs in Irish mental health services. Psychiatrists, health and social care professionals, policy makers and people with lived experience are all invited to attend. Dr Nuala Kane, Consultant Psychiatrist & Dr Jennifer Allen, Senior Social Worker, co-conveners.

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AHDsMentalHealthCommunityofPractice — 2025-01-15 20:59:23 UTC

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Community of Practice Seminar 1 with Dr Lucy Stephenson - Designing Advance Choice Documents

AHDsMentalHealthCommunityofPractice — 2025-05-07 11:18:24 UTC

Our guest speaker for our first seminar on 7/5/25 was Dr Lucy Stephenson, a Consultant Psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in England. She is part of the Complex Life and Death Decisions group based at Kings College London, and has a PhD in Psychological Medicine which focussed on advance decision making in severe mental illness.

Lucy spoke on Designing Advance Choice Documents: Our three best mistakes: 'This session discussed the process of designing and implementing pilot Advance Choice Documents in real world busy mental health teams in South East London. It covered the best mistakes we made during this process and how the service users co-producing these documents provided the innovation to overcome them'.

Link to the recording of Lucy's presentation:

https://ucd-ie.zoom.us/rec/share/wR95hlP2TCRPnYAE-ErFV7m7IK-McYtqpBuyXNN9qfnmPB-OMSCjbriB6TjRyKMA.CTcX2BFRXK3zM2if

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Community of Practice Seminar 2 with Dr Cat Hinds - Pre-Birth Planning

nualakane — 2025-11-19 08:28:07 UTC

Our guest speaker for the second seminar on 12/11/25 was Dr Cat Hinds, a Perinatal Psychiatrist at the Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Service (SPMHS) at the National Maternity Hospital. She is the Chair of the Perinatal Psychiatry Special Interest Group at the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland. Over the last 8 years, she has established and delivered new specialist perinatal mental health services in the UK and Ireland. She completed her medical training in London, and her specialist psychiatric training in New Zealand and Australia.

Dr Hinds spoke on Pre-Birth Planning Meetings in Perinatal Mental Health Services:

Pre-birth planning is an integral part of Perinatal Psychiatry. There is clear evidence that pregnancy and birth can trigger a relapse of severe mental illness. When a pregnant woman has an existing or previous diagnosis of severe mental illness, there is a valuable opportunity for perinatal mental health teams to engage in relapse prevention work. Pre-birth planning meetings are a way of creating and implementing a relapse prevention plan, and a chance for a woman and her partner to be involved in treatment decisions for the future in her pregnancy, birth and postpartum period.

Recording available here:

https://ucd-ie.zoom.us/rec/share/uRMmK2jh8QPXJFG4HHbAe2ABhpsriKUhzlpx_cUWIuEwgAXVL97BVnRqioE8zFSV.ls3kXzHBEjDtNPEJ?startTime=1762952770000

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Hot off the press - new research in the IJPM on the role of peer workers in advance directives

nualakane — 2025-11-19 08:34:08 UTC

Hot off the press - new research in the IJPM on views of inpatient service users on AHDs

nualakane — 2025-11-19 08:35:58 UTC

New editorial in IJPM: Rosy Wilson's lived experience and advocacy perspective on AHDs

nualakane — 2025-11-19 08:38:05 UTC

Hot off the press - qualitative study on professional experiences of ethical conflicts in mental health AHDs

nualakane — 2025-11-19 08:40:52 UTC

Hot off the press - findings from a study of implementation of advance choice documents for Black people

nualakane — 2025-11-19 08:42:52 UTC

Newly published report on our UCD Conference on 'AHDs for Mental Health: from Law to Practice'

nualakane — 2025-11-19 08:44:32 UTC